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Etymology

From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin origo ("beginning, source, birth, origin"), from orior ("to rise"); see orient. Doublet of origo.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /'.?.dn/, /'.?.dn/
(General American) IPA^(key): /'.?.dn/, /'.dn/
(NYC) IPA^(key): /'.?.dn/
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Noun

origin (plural origins)

The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
  It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,--these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.
- 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, "Where the profound meets the profane", in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
  Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language - "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
Synonym: source
(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
Synonym: zero vector
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.

Synonyms

(beginning): See Thesaurus:beginning

Antonyms

(beginning): end
(source): destination
(anatomy): insertion

Derived terms

Related terms

orient

Translations

beginning of something

Arabic: ?‎ m (man?a?)
Egyptian Arabic: ?‎ m (man?a?)
Aragonese: orichen m
Asturian: orixe
Belarusian: f (kryníca), ? n (?araló), m (pa?átak)
Bulgarian: (bg) n (na?alo)
Catalan: origen (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: (zh) (q?yuán), (zh), (zh) (yuántóu), (zh) (q?sh?), (zh) (b?nyuán)

Min Dong: (ki nguon)
Czech: vznik (cs) m, po?átek (cs) m
Dutch: oorsprong (nl) m, herkomst (nl) f
Esperanto: origino (eo)
Finnish: alkuperä (fi)
French: origine (fr) f
Galician: orixe (gl) f
Georgian: ? (sac?q?isi)
German: Ursprung (de) m, Anfang (de) m, Entstehung (de) f
Greek: ? (el) f (archí), (el) f (proélefsi)
Ancient: ? f (arkh?)
Haitian Creole: orijin
Hindi: (hi) f (?uru?t)
Hungarian: eredet (hu), kezdet (hu), kezd?pont (hu), kiindulópont (hu)
Indonesian: asal usul (id)
Irish: foinse f, máthair (ga) f, bunús m
Italian: origine (it)
Japanese: (ja) (, kigen), (ja) (?, gen'in)

Kilivila: uula
Korean: (ko) (giwon), (ko) (wonin)
Latin: or?g? (la) f, principium (la) n, pr?mordium f
Latvian: cilme f
Lithuanian: kilm? (lt) f
Mongolian: (mn) (garal)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: opphav (no) n, opprinnelse m, utgangspunkt n, utspring n

Nynorsk: opphav n, utgangspunkt n, utspring n
Novial: origine
Plautdietsch: Aunfank m, Häakunft f
Polish: pochodzenie (pl) n
Portuguese: origem (pt) f, começo (pt) m
Romanian: origine (ro) f, origin? (ro) f
Russian: ? (ru) n (na?álo), (ru) m (istó?nik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: m

Roman: po?étak (sh) m
Sicilian: uriggina (scn) f, urìggina (scn)
Slovak: za?iatok (sk) m, vznik (sk) m
Slovene: poreklo n, za?etek (sl) m
Spanish: origen (es) m
Swedish: ursprung (sv) n
Tagalog: mulâ, simulâ, pasimulâ, umpisá
Turkish: köken (tr), ba?lang?ç (tr), kaynak (tr), orijin (tr)
Ukrainian: (uk) n (d?ereló), (uk) f (krynýcja), (uk) m (po?átok)
Venetian: orixene
Vietnamese: ngu?n g?c (vi)
Volapük: rig (vo)
Zulu: umsuka 3 or 4

source of a river, information, goods, etc.

Arabic: ?‎ m (manba?), ?‎ m (man?a?), ?‎ (ar) m (ma?dar)
Egyptian Arabic: ?‎ m (manba?), ?‎ m (man?a?), ?‎ m (ma?dar)
Bengali: (utpôtti?thôl)
Bulgarian: (bg) m (ízvor), (bg) m (ízto?nik)
Catalan: origen (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: (zh), (zh) (yuántóu), (zh) (shu?yuán)
Czech: po?átek (cs) m, pramen (cs) m
Dutch: oorsprong (nl) m
Esperanto: fonto
Finnish: lähteet pl (of a river), alkuperä (fi) (of information etc.)
French: source (fr) f
Georgian: (c?q?aro)
German: Quelle (de) f
Greek: ? (el) f (pigí)
Haitian Creole: sous
Hungarian: (of a river, information) forrás (hu), (of goods etc) származás (hu)

Indonesian: asal (id), sumber (id)
Irish: foinse f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: utspring n (river)

Nynorsk: utspring n (river)
Portuguese: origem (pt) f, (de um rio) nascente (pt) f
Russian: ? (ru) n (na?álo), (ru) m (istó?nik), (ru) m (istók) (origin of a river)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: m, n, n

Roman: ìzvor (sh) m, vr?lo (sh) n, ìzvorte (sh) n
Slovene: izvor (sl) m
Spanish: origen (es) m
Swedish: källa (sv) c, ursprung (sv) n
Tagalog: kasimulan
Turkish: kaynak (tr)
Zulu: umdabu 3, indabuko 9 or 10

point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect

Bulgarian: ? (bg) n (na?álo)
Chinese:
Mandarin: (zh), (zh) (yuándi?n)
Czech: po?átek (cs) m
Danish: origo
Dutch: oorsprong (nl) m
Finnish: origo (fi), nollapiste (fi)
French: origine (fr) f
German: Ursprung (de) m
Hungarian: origó (hu)
Indonesian: origo

Irish: bunphointe m
Japanese: (genten)
Norwegian: origo
Portuguese: origem (pt) f
Russian: ? ? n (na?álo koordinát)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: n

Roman: ìshodte (sh) n
Swedish: origo (sv) n
Tagalog: mulaan
Turkish: orijin (tr)

ancestry

Arabic: ‎ (a?l)
Armenian: (hy) (cagum)
Belarusian: n (paxód?annje), n (paxad?énnje)
Bulgarian: (bg) m (proízhod)
Chinese:
Mandarin: (zh) (q?yuán), (zh), (zh) (láiyuán)
Czech: p?vod (cs) m
Dutch: oorsprong (nl) m, afkomst (nl) f, herkomst (nl) f
Finnish: syntyperä (fi)
French: origine (fr) f
Georgian: (c?armomavloba)
German: Herkunft (de) f
Greek: (el) f (katagogí)
Hungarian: származás (hu)
Indonesian: asal (id)

Irish: bunús m
Italian: origini (it) f pl
Macedonian: ? n (poteklo)
Mongolian: (mn) (garal)
Polish: pochodzenie (pl)
Portuguese: origem (pt) f
Russian: (ru) n (proisxo?dénije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: n, ? n

Roman: podrijétlo (sh) n, porijéklo (sh) n
Slovak: pôvod (sk) m
Slovene: poreklo n, izvir (sl) m
Spanish: origen (es) m
Swedish: ursprung (sv) n, härkomst (sv) c
Turkish: soy sop (tr)
Ukrainian: n (poxód?ennja)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Arabic: ^{(please verify)}‎ m (?a?l)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)}oorsprong (nl) m
French: ^{(please verify)}origine (fr) f
German: ^{(please verify)}Ursprung (de) m
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)}?‎ (he) m
Ido: ^{(please verify)}origino (io)

Italian: ^{(please verify)}origine (it) f
Korean: ^{(please verify)} (ko) (woncheon), ^{(please verify)} (ko) (geunwon)
Old English: ^{(please verify)}frymþu f
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: ^{(please verify)}istok (sh) m, ^{(please verify)}poreklo (sh) n, ^{(please verify)}postanak (sh) m